Chapter 16

“Li Wen, hurry, there’s another villager over there.”

Someone grabbed Li Wen and pulled him down the mountain.

“What?”

Hearing this, Li Wen couldn’t care less about chasing after Jiang Nianzi.

He hurried as fast as he could, and finally rescued the person.

Li Wen looked up and saw Shen Cheng directing his subordinates.

He quickly went to Shen Cheng: “Report, Captain, I failed the task you gave me.”

Failed?

Shen Cheng turned to look at him, he had only given him one task, to probe the female doctor’s attitude.

Shen Cheng frowned, thinking that Li Wen meant that he hadn’t persuaded her, the female doctor still felt that she had lost her innocence.

“Where does she live?” Shen Cheng’s brows were furrowed so tightly that a fly could have landed on them, his beautiful peach blossom eyes were filled with a complex emotion.

Li Wen shook his head: “I don’t know, I didn’t ask.”

“Huh?”

Li Wen saw his expression and instantly understood that he had expressed himself incorrectly.

“Captain, that’s not what I meant. The female doctor didn’t seem to care about that at all, she was busy saving people the whole time. She just finished treating the patient, and she was in a hurry to go back.”

So that was it, Shen Cheng breathed a sigh of relief: “Then… did you thank her for me?”

Li Wen shook his head again: “No.”

He said it with such confidence.

Shen Cheng couldn’t help but punch him.

Li Wen covered his stomach and cried out: “My fault.”

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On the other side, Jiang Nianzi, who had returned home, had fallen ill.

Her body had been so good before.

She had never been like this.

When Jiang Nianzi had a headache, fever, and chest tightness, there was only one thought in her mind, this body was really sensitive to cold, it would become weak at the slightest touch of cold.

Sigh…

“Mom, how is Zizi? Is it serious?”

Ding Hongmei asked her mother-in-law with red eyes, worried.

The old lady said fiercely: “It’s just a cold and fever, but our Nianbao is too weak, a little illness can make her suffer greatly. Zhang Qixian, that old geezer, actually took our Zizi to such a dangerous place.”

When Jiang Nianzi returned home, she was soaked through, the old lady was also at their house, after a series of questions, and Jiang Nianzi could only tell the truth.

Jiang Nianzi’s lips were dry, seeing Ding Hongmei and the old lady worried, she smiled and comforted them: “Grandma, don’t scold Zhang Grandpa, I insisted on going with him. And I’m not feeling bad, I’ll be fine after taking some medicine. Don’t worry, you and Mom.”

“What’s fine? Look at how pale you are.”

The old lady’s tone was fierce, but her actions were gentle.

She helped Jiang Nianzi up from the bed: “Come, drink some medicine.”

The old lady had a faint scent of medicine, Jiang Nianzi often dealt with herbs, and she didn’t find it unpleasant.

Instead, she felt a sense of familiarity.

“Thank you, Grandma.”

“A whole family saying these polite things, be careful, Grandma will beat you.”

Ding Hongmei saw that Jiang Nianzi’s spirit wasn’t so bad, she smiled and comforted her: “Your grandma is just talking, she doesn’t dare to hit you. Are you hungry? Mom will go make you some food.”

Ding Hongmei said as she walked out.

She was usually stingy, but when it came to her daughter, Ding Hongmei was afraid of giving her not enough.

She first cooked rice, then made her poached eggs.

She put a big spoonful of lard, and she also cracked four or five eggs.

In Ding Hongmei’s eyes, more lard meant it was a good thing.

Jiang Nianzi came back late tonight, Ding Hongmei was reluctant to cook, so the family ate corn porridge.

Smelling the aroma of lard, Jiang Doudou and Jiang Cheng came to the kitchen.

Seeing her little son’s big eyes staring at the eggs in the pot, Ding Hongmei said fiercely: “Don’t even think about it, your sister is sick, she needs to be taken care of.”

“I know.” Although Jiang Doudou was tempted, he was also worried about Jiang Nianzi: “Mom, if sister eats more eggs, she’ll get better, right?”

Jiang Cheng rubbed Jiang Doudou’s head: “Yes, yes, yes.”

Then, Jiang Cheng turned to ask Ding Hongmei: “Mom, how is Zizi?”

“Your grandma said, it’s not a big problem, it’s just that our Zizi is too weak.”

There was no way around it, it was an illness she had since she was in the womb.

Thinking about it, Ding Hongmei felt guilty.

The next day, Ding Hongmei refused to let Jiang Nianzi go to work at the clinic, saying that she would personally go to the clinic to ask Zhang Grandpa for leave.

Jiang Nianzi wanted to struggle: “Mom, I really can… okay, I can’t.”

Meeting Ding Hongmei’s red eyes, Jiang Nianzi decisively gave in.

The world was big, but Mom was the biggest.

She surrendered.

Ding Hongmei and the old lady went to town to ask for leave for her, Jiang Cheng and Jiang Doudou stayed at home to take care of Jiang Nianzi.

Jiang Nianzi moved a small stool and sat in the yard, admiring the scenery.

Their yard was large, with a fence made of branches enclosing a large area.

But the ground was all flattened, and nothing was planted.

Jiang Doudou squatted beside Jiang Nianzi: “Sister, what are you looking at?”

“I’m looking at the ground, it’s too barren… Wait.”

Jiang Nianzi suddenly remembered the vegetable seeds she had bought last time.

“Brother, brother!”

Jiang Nianzi shouted loudly.

Jiang Cheng thought something had happened to Jiang Nianzi, he ran out with his spatula: “Zizi, Zizi, what’s wrong?”

“Brother, I bought two bags of vegetable seeds last time, they’re in the kitchen.”

“Ah? What about them?” Jiang Cheng asked.

Jiang Nianzi excitedly stood up: “How could I forget about this? Brother, don’t cook, I’ll fry the vegetables, you turn over the soil in the yard, and then we’ll sow the seeds later.”

Hearing that they were going to plant vegetables, Jiang Cheng was also a little excited.

“Okay.”

So Jiang Nianzi fried the vegetables, and Jiang Cheng turned over the soil.

She casually fried an egg and some winter melon, she ate the winter melon, and her brothers ate the eggs.

Everyone ate their breakfast with rosy cheeks.

Because they were too hungry!

But the problem was, because Jiang Nianzi hadn’t thought about being frugal at all, the eggs she had bought last time were almost gone.

She had about eight yuan left.

Jiang Nianzi sighed, she really needed to start earning money.

She had been waiting for Zhao Fanghu’s best feedback.

But she also understood that the whitening cream she had given Zhao Fanghu, although effective, wasn’t the best.

And to attract others to give it a try, her own living advertisement was the most important.

She touched her face, she had done a good job of sun protection during this time, she had indeed become fairer, but that was only because she was comparing it to her previous skin color.

Compared to normal people, she was still dark.

The village was backed by mountains, Jiang Nianzi had an idea, she started to think about the possibility of going up the mountain to find good herbs.

“Brother, let’s go up the mountain?”

Jiang Cheng had just finished turning over the soil and sowing the seeds, he was stunned when he heard Jiang Nianzi say this.

“Zizi, what are you doing going up the mountain?” Her frail body, Jiang Cheng was really afraid that she would get sick again, and then get a fat beating from their mom.

“Brother, do you want to make money?” Jiang Nianzi was confused, her thoughts were still stuck in the modern world, and she thought there weren’t many good things on the mountain.

She completely forgot that in this era, there were the most treasures in the mountains.

Jiang Cheng was desperate to make money, he wanted to make a lot of money, so his sister wouldn’t have to work so hard, and his mother wouldn’t have to work so hard either.

But he was limited in his abilities.